The number and organization of the rRNA genes of several strains of Mycobacterium simiae

FEMS Microbiology Letters

Volumn 227, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 133-139

  Rivera Gutiérrez, Sandra ^a   Montoro Cardoso, Ernesto ^b   Valdivia, Jose A ^b   Cox, Robert A ^c   Gonzalez Y Merchand, Jorge A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mycobacterium simiae; rRNA operon; Strain difference; Transcription start point

Indexed keywords

DNA 16S; RIBOSOME RNA; SPACER DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; GENE NUMBER; GENE SEQUENCE; MYCOBACTERIUM SIMIAE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPERON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA GENE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; BACTERIAL GENOME; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MYCOBACTERIUM;

CORYNEBACTERINEAE; MYCOBACTERIUM SIMIAE;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, INTERGENIC; GENES, RRNA; GENOME, BACTERIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOBACTERIUM; RRNA OPERON;

EID: 1542648499     PISSN: 03781097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1097(03)00656-6     Document Type: Article

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